Summary
Pavel Ostyakov is a Head of AI based in London with a decade of experience applying deep learning to real-world imaging and video problems across leading labs and industry teams. He progressed from building MapReduce internals at Yandex to advancing image processing, GANs, and video classification at Samsung and Huawei, and now leads AI strategy and delivery at Recraft. A top Kaggle competitor with eight gold medals and a current global rank near the top 15, he brings rare hands-on modeling expertise combined with production-facing leadership. Known for turning cutting-edge research into deployed features, he blends strong academic foundations from the Higher School of Economics with a pragmatic focus on robust, scalable ML systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Higher School of Economics